The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: With an Essay on His Poetry by Andrew LangKegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1883 - 172 pages |
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... to Science Al Aaraaf . Tamerlane PAGE 35 38 40 43 42 43 44 45 48 53 85 86 II2 A Dream Romance Fairyland 124 125 127 To - 130 To the River 131 The Lake . To 132 Song 134 LATER POEMS . A Dream within a Dream PAGE 137 X CONTENTS .
... to Science Al Aaraaf . Tamerlane PAGE 35 38 40 43 42 43 44 45 48 53 85 86 II2 A Dream Romance Fairyland 124 125 127 To - 130 To the River 131 The Lake . To 132 Song 134 LATER POEMS . A Dream within a Dream PAGE 137 X CONTENTS .
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... lake A conscious slumber seems to take , And would not , for the world , awake . All Beauty sleeps ! -and lo ! where lies ( Her casement open to the skies ) Irene , with her Destinies ! Oh , lady bright ! can it be right- This The Sleeper.
... lake A conscious slumber seems to take , And would not , for the world , awake . All Beauty sleeps ! -and lo ! where lies ( Her casement open to the skies ) Irene , with her Destinies ! Oh , lady bright ! can it be right- This The Sleeper.
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... For the dews that drip all over ; Mountains toppling evermore Into seas without a shore ; Seas that restlessly aspire , Surging , unto skies of fire ; Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters - lone and Dreamland.
... For the dews that drip all over ; Mountains toppling evermore Into seas without a shore ; Seas that restlessly aspire , Surging , unto skies of fire ; Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters - lone and Dreamland.
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With an Essay on His Poetry by Andrew Lang Edgar Allan Poe Andrew Lang. Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters - lone and dead , - Their still waters - still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily . By the lakes that ...
With an Essay on His Poetry by Andrew Lang Edgar Allan Poe Andrew Lang. Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters - lone and dead , - Their still waters - still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily . By the lakes that ...
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... lakes , and over - arching forests , And mountains , around whose towering summits the winds Of Heaven untrammelled flow - which air to breathe Is Happiness now , and will be Freedom hereafter In days that are to come ? POL . Oh , wilt ...
... lakes , and over - arching forests , And mountains , around whose towering summits the winds Of Heaven untrammelled flow - which air to breathe Is Happiness now , and will be Freedom hereafter In days that are to come ? POL . Oh , wilt ...
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Page xxv - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you " — here I opened wide the door: — Darkness there and nothing more.
Page 4 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Page 133 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 6 - And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming' And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Page xxiv - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 136 - Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night How we .shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan.
Page 1 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Page 2 - Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before; On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 23 - And they say (the starry choir And the other listening things) That Israfeli's fire Is owing to that lyre By which he sits and sings — The trembling living wire Of those unusual strings.
Page 155 - And ah! let it never Be foolishly said That my room it is gloomy And narrow my bed; For man never slept In a different bed And, to sleep, you must slumber In just such a bed. My...